Educational toy.



M. A. GILMAN. EDUCATIONAL TOY. APPLICATION man AUG.I. 19:1.

Patented Aug. 20, 1913.

MINUTES AFTER TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES WITNESS:

' ATTORNEY.

MYRON A. GILIVIAN, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. I

EDUCATIONAL -TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 1, 1917. Serial N 0. 183,969.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MYRON A. GILMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of lVestfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Educational Toy, of which the following is a specification.

y invention relates to improvements in childrens toys for educational purposes, and more particularly to devices for teaching the manner of telling-the time of day, and said invention resides in a cut-up or dissected clock-face representation, which is provided with movable and removable hourand minlite-hands, all as hereinafter set forth. I

The primary object of my invention is to produce a toy of the'kind specified above, for use in the home, kindergarten, or play-room, anywhere, which arouses the childs interest and'fixes his attention so that the faculty to tell time is easily, quickly, and permanently acquired or stimulated into activity, as the case may be,such toy being simple and inexpensive in construction and character, and.

capable of attracting the notice of even very young children.

This'clock-face toy is free from the pronounced and obvious elements so frequently present in educational toys, and which to the child bear more or less clearly the ear-marks of the teaching art, or suggest, even subconsciously perhaps, that an attempt is being made to require and possibly almost force the child to apply himself to the task of learninga certain thing, as to tell time. To the child-this device is purely and simply a toy. lVithout any alarm or misgiving whatsoever, he plays with the blocks, fits them together, with indifferent success at first probably, observes, Without efforton his part or outside prompting, that the disk which he succeeds at last in completing, and which is put together with increasing facility the oftener the attempt is made, possesses certain peculiarities which mean. something. and discovers that it resembles the face of the clock on the wall or mantle. Then the hands are applied and operated aimlessly at first, but shortly the child finds again that they relate to the old, familiar clock, and gradually the process is Worked out, and the aforesaid clock ceases to be a mystery-the child has learned how to tell time by that or any other timepiece.

The toy possesses, in its cut-up pieces which are capable of being united one W th for the reason previously ,set forth.'

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one possible Way in each case, and its rot-a.- table hands, elements of amusement for the immature mind of the youngch-i-lcL quite apart from the practical element, and it is herein that much of the value, ofsaid. toy lies, Other objects and advantages Will appear 1n the course of the following description.

I attain the objeetsand secure the advan tages of my inventionby the means illus-.

trated in the ac Wh1Ch- Figure 1 is a plan of a toy which "embodies a' practical form of my invention, and,{Figl ompanying drawings, in

2, a central section through said toy, s'uch Lei.

section being horizontal so as to include the hands in longitudinal section and inasmuch as the latter in the first View are'both horizontally' positioned.

Similar reference characters; designate similar parts throughout the several views.

As clearly shown in the drawi'ngs, my' toy consists of a plurality of members or pieces 1, '2, and 3 cut outih irregular shapes, but

adapted to be fitted together to form a clock-' face, dial marks and characters being delineated on such that they can be properly fitted togetherto, make up the disk which constitutes theiclock face including the dial.-

There is but a single piece 1 and that is the; central member of the clock-face, in which is the opening 8 for the piir There are in this instance seven pieces 2, but this number may be varied.

,2 are those with the piecel Which H of the pieces 3, the latter being the outer or peripheral pieces.

There are preferably twelve of the peripheral pieces 3. Each of these pieces is irregular in outline, except for one 'areuate edge which forms a part of theperiphery of the complete clock-face. An hour and several minute graduation marks are dellneated on the front side of each piece 3 adjacentnto the arcuate edge thereof, such marks enterpieces and so on the com pleted face to form the dial, an hour-hand l ahead 9 to The p e s are lnslde thedial,

ing into and assisting to make up the clockface dial, in which there are. twelve hour marks and sixty minute marks. One of the Roman numerals delineated on the face of each'piece 3, and the arrangement is such that said numerals follow in order from right 'to left when the pieces-3 are united with ea In addition to piece 3, there ditional data; such as statements relativeto the number of minutes past and ofthe'hour,

. and'the'quarter past and half past'an'd the ploy'edu The aforesaid minute,

to the child -in 'masterlng is complete.

quarter of the hour,

ing the operation and'meaning ofthe minute-hand 5,substantially as'shown. Instead -of stating the'numbe'rofQminutes-adj acent to the! III, IV, and IX," the terms Quarter; Quarter of are em-d past, Half past quarter-hour and half-hour designations are 1pin'-isthrust into the opening 8 inthejpiece 1. Now the hands 4 ando can be turned on the pin 6 over the dia'lfof the cl'ock face,. be-

ing at first so turned merely for theple'asure to be derived from the act,'but later, as the --.childs' curiosity and interest.- become more acute, to deslgnate-d fferent hours and frac- .tions of hours," in

the innumerable Ways possible. o I When the child gets tired of "playing. with the toy he Will usually dissect it and leave it been produced and a .return card bearing rotatable (but not removable) pointers, for" in set forth is'nevv and'nov'el.

apart from my peculiar clock-face p in conditionfor a repetition of the, constructive and nstructive. processes, -lor an older person can disassemble the parts. Although many dissected vpuzzles office use,- is old,- a devlce suchas I have here- I make no claim'broadly' to ."a dissected uzzle, and no claim to: hands or pointers As previously pointed out or intimated,

, some changes ma-y be made in the shape, size,

changes not involving, however, any

Ito XII, inclusive, is also,

, fact that Arabic'figures may be used in place of the 'Roman numerals, or. ,may robe,

ch other to form the graduation 7 marks and the aforesaid numerals "on each"- may'be delineated thereon adto assist in understand tably of assistance the problem upon 7 educational toy comprising although generally sected of said clock-face,

- educational toy -interior.

v i 1 .2 F front-face characters, etc; of the toy, such departure from the scope of the appended claims. In this connection attention is called to the placed on the other side of the-clock-face or the back sides of the pieces 3.

' What lvclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by. Letters-Patent, is

1. As a new-article of maiiufacture, an

face, and hands attachable 'sected'pieces of said "c'lockwface, movable ovensaid face.

' educational toy comprising a dissected clock ito'one of the dis= educational toy comprising a'dissected clock face, hands, and'a pin'ad'apted to bep'assed handsand insertible" in one :of

through said As a newarticleof manuf'actu'rdsan T the dissected pieces making up 'saidclockface. V

3.As: a. nevt 'ar'ticle' of 1 manufacture, an

Wh'ich consists. of-exterior and interior disand perforatedpiece',

perforated piece being located in the: center and said pieces,hands and* pin all being separableone from the other. I

pieces, one of such interior pieces ba' raclock-face the perforation in said 1 4.: As a newarticle of fmanufacture, an, y

- comprislng WlllCll consists of dissected exterior 211116.111- tfenor pieces, eaclro'f said exterior pieces inclu'ding an'individual portion of the clock-- face dial, and hands-attachable to one of said pieces,

center of said clock-face, and rotatably mo'vable over said face.

ata point which is'in the v I As a new article, off-manufacture, an;

educational toy: comprising a; clock face which consists of exterior! and interio'rdissected pieces, each of, said exterlor pieces in we o F eluding an individual portion of thelclock face dial, and one ofv said interior piecesbe receivable in the'perforations in and perforated piece, theperforation in said perforated piece being; located in I the center of Y said clock-face. r

:ing perforated, perforated hands, and a pm saidhands I 

